Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

Practicing Presence in Everyday Life | Free Live Teaching with Eckhart Tolle

3 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this live teaching, Eckhart Tolle emphasizes the importance of staying fully present during everyday journeys rather than fixating on a future destination. He asks listeners whether they notice the scent of flowers or the presence of trees along their path, pointing out that an obsession with reaching "point B" turns these natural experiences into peripheral, ignored events. Tolle proposes that each step can be made self‑sufficient and meaningful by anchoring awareness in the present moment, thereby transforming every movement into the most important part of the journey.

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Do you remember to smell the flowers on the— on your way? Do you appreciate the tree? Or are you so obsessed with arriving at point B that you disregard all the things in your journey, on all the— whatever surrounds you? It becomes like a peripheral event. The beautiful flowers, the trees, they become peripheral. They're almost ignored completely because you need to get there. But it is possible to continue on your journey but appreciate what's in the, in the present moment, every step, to, to make every step into something self-sufficient almost. Every step happens in the present moment, and every step is the most important step on your journey. It's this step.